Google DeepMind Preps for Gemini 4 Release Amid Rising Competition

Google's DeepMind is gearing up to release Gemini 4 later this year, according to Koray Kavukcuoglu, head of DeepMind. The company has been focusing on efficient and compact models since the release of Gemini 3 Pro last year, but it seems that will change soon.

While OpenAI and Anthropic have made significant progress with their LLMs this year, Google's focus has been on developing models that can be fine-tuned and used for various tasks. The training process for Gemini 4 is complete, and the model is now in the post-training phase, which involves fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.

Google was once considered the most promising AI player between 2023 and 2025, but this year it has faced stiff competition from other companies like Meta and SpaceXAI. The company's coding assistant failed to materialize, and its models have been surpassed by others in terms of power and performance.